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Columbia Heights superintendent says ICE Operation Metro Surge brought armed agents to schools, detained students
Summary
Superintendent Zena Stenbic told recorded testimony that ICEs Operation Metro Surge brought heavily armed agents near Columbia Heights school buildings, led to seven student detentions (six sent to Dilley, Texas), and triggered trauma that disrupted learning for hundreds of students.
Zena Stenbic, superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools in Minnesota, said in recorded testimony that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements Operation Metro Surge brought a daily, heavily armed ICE presence to and around district school buildings and led to the detention of seven students, six of whom were taken to a detention center in Dilley, Texas.
"These weren't typical law enforcement officers that we're used to interacting with in our community. These were heavily armed, fatigued, masked agents, oftentimes in unmarked cars or fully blacked out cars," Stenbic said, describing agents she said sometimes had no license plates…
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